The Electronic Signature Business Plan is the second phase of a four phase process required by the NMFS procedural directive for e-signatures to allow NMFS applications to use electronic signatures. This phase is designed to show explain why allowing the system to allow an applicant to use an electronic signature for a transaction is beneficial and "practicable", both to NMFS and its end users. The business plan also discusses the current process that will be replaced by the e-government application, the demand for electronic signatures in for the application, how NPS plans to implement electronic signatures in this context, the various costs and benefits, and an implementation plan outline. The remaining two phases in implementing electronic signatures required by the procedural directive are:
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The Hawaii Non-commercial Bottomfish Logbook is a web based system designed to facilitate reporting by recreational and subsistence fishers in this fishery. This web-based application will obviate the need for fishers to send in paper logbook pages at the completion of fishing trips. . Moving to the Pacific region to an electronic system for the collecting collection of these logbook data has many beneficial and practicable benefits in the form of increased efficiency, accessibility, and reliability over the current paper process. (Need more on system background).